First wave of 5G is going to be a mess. Just about every cell company has its own version of what they believe 5G should be. So in other words if you think phone prices are starting to skyrocket think again. Each phone manufacturer is going to have to build 5G phones that are unique to each cell phone company. Bringing production costs up. Not only that if you travel overseas your Brand New 5G Phone will not be compatible with your phone since they too are using a different version of what they believe 5G should be. Europe is focusing their 5G development to expand service to be able to have better distance but slower speeds. U.S. carriers are focusing more on speeds 1st. Again all using different versions on how they accomplish this. All partnering with different companies to bring 5G making compatibility non existent. At least for the first 3 to 5 years. Locking the consumer further into the carrier they choose to go with when buying into 5G services.

Please, you could have told us about the time apple deployed 3G, 4G capable phone and the 3G, 4G coverage was globally. There should be correlation there as apple mostly makes one phone to be used globally and iPhone for made for different markets, mostly. Ian, 5G is incremental upgrade to 4G not 5G being step up, 4G was the step up in terms of architecture from 3G. Building modems and frequency is homework to every generation of wireless but LTE was the reason why 4G turned to really be all new step up and 5G is built on the premise of LTE so connect the dots. You’re welcome! Bloomberg Tech,

Samsung is leading 5G standards and Apple and its makers in China don't like it.China is currently POLITICALLY blocking Samsung's entry in 5G network equipments and want to build its own. There is no Samsung network equipment in China. Apple needs to wait its Chinese partner's building the phone after the formal 5G standards are announced. For the chips, the standards is already set and anyone can build now. So, basically rivalry between Samsung & Apple causes the delay and China really want the competition between two to get benefits from it.

2019 will be marked as the year people start to have cancer inducing radiation due to excessive 5g usage . Bodies will start to break down faster as genes get destroyed slowly and people will age faster. The effect will be subtle but tangible after 20 years as our body will fail to cope as genes degradation.

All these people talking about the health impact of 5g without giving credible sources or sources that are just clearly exaggerated/false. Should I assume you are a health professional and you have conducted verifiable and repeated studies and you can't show it to people because of the mass hyteria that it would cause.

I’m gonna give you some insider news. Apple is doing it because Intel supplies Apple with modems and it failed to meet its goal once again. Other manufacturers use qualcomm’s modems and they’re ready with it.